Jacques Babinet

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Jacques Babinet was a 19th-century French physicist and optician best known for his work on diffraction and for formulating Babinet's principle in wave optics.

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instanceOf French scientist
human
optician
physical principle
physicist
appliesTo diffraction
countryOfBirth France
countryOfCitizenship France
educatedAt École Polytechnique NERFINISHED
familyName Babinet NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork diffraction
optics
physics
wave optics
givenName Jacques NERFINISHED
hasPrincipleNamedAfter Babinet's principle NERFINISHED
knownFor contributions to wave optics
formulation of Babinet's principle
work on diffraction
languageOfWorkOrName French
memberOf Académie des Sciences
surface form: French Academy of Sciences
name Jacques Babinet NERFINISHED
namedAfter Jacques Babinet NERFINISHED
nativeLanguage French
notableWork Babinet's principle NERFINISHED
occupation optician
physicist
sexOrGender male
workLocation Paris

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Babinet's principle namedAfter Jacques Babinet
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